I have a 8 bay calvary sata extender also a 4 bay sans digital and a 4 bay media sonic probox. So I can test and cover most of the top enclosures on the market. As soon as I get your driver installed today I will be testing the port multiplier enclosures I listed on my esxi 4.1 box , I also have a quad amd bulldozer box I have 5.0 on so if anyone knows where I might find a Sil3132 driver for it I will test that as well.

Fri Oct 28, 2011 2:20 pm

quicksilver5797

Joined: Thu Nov 17, 2011 8:23 pmPosts: 3

Re: Porting driver from Linux

I wanted to know if you got the drive to work in esxi 4 and if the port multiplier was working. They just released the sources for esxi5 I was going to follow similar steps to compile the new driver. Trying to figure out what version of linux to pull drivers from, as the new esxi 5 is based on a new kernel. Any help and answers much appreciated.

Thu Nov 17, 2011 8:27 pm

quicksilver5797

Joined: Thu Nov 17, 2011 8:23 pmPosts: 3

Re: Porting driver from Linux

please let us know your results in testing esxi 4 with 3132. Also I am looking to try and build the drive in esxi 5 as the new sources just became available recently. Can anyone help out with what version of linux to pull the files form to get this build to work I would greatly appreciate it thanks.

Thu Nov 17, 2011 8:39 pm

wubbzy

Joined: Tue Nov 29, 2011 11:02 pmPosts: 6

Re: Porting driver from Linux

quicksilver5797 wrote:

please let us know your results in testing esxi 4 with 3132.

I have a 3132 card and a 4 bay mediasonic probox. I used the compiled driver (2.6.19) from another thread with ESXi 4.1, and I can say that it doesn't work. Only the first drive is recognized. The same hardware works fine with Ubuntu and FreeNAS, so I can rule out a h/w problem.

I'm not exactly a linux kernel hacker, but I am tempted to try to compile an updated version of the sata_sil24 driver. I haven't looked yet, but perhaps ESXi 5.0 might work more easily with a newer version of the driver.

On the other hand, upgrading to a VT-d capable CPU or just going to a non-virtualized linux server is looking like a pretty good option right now.

Fri Dec 02, 2011 9:37 pm

quicksilver5797

Joined: Thu Nov 17, 2011 8:23 pmPosts: 3

Re: Porting driver from Linux

Well from what it looks like the ahci driver in even 5.0 does not have FIS built into it correctly, I am trying to hack in the options from a normal linux kernal but patching this thing seems more difficult then i first expected. This is the reason only one drive is detected because vmware does not turn on the fis and can not use the esata port multiplier, I really dont know why the removed this option out of the kernal but it is really disappointing.

Sat Dec 03, 2011 4:01 am

mbrownnyc

Joined: Tue Aug 20, 2013 6:20 amPosts: 1Location: nyc

Re: Porting driver from Linux

Hello all,

bphinz, I will attempt, but I am curious if you have ported sata_sil24 to ESX 5.1.

I just grabbed a cheap eSATA adapter with sil3132 on it off amazon, and it doesn't appear to be recognized on 5.1.

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